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Staff+ engineers are the key to AI adoption
As the organizational glue, staff+ engineers are best placed to bring in successful AI adoption.
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Deliver meaningful feedback in the age of AI
What happens when we delegate one of the most human parts of the job to AI?
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Hard-won lessons on building and scaling ML models
How small teams can deploy highly adaptable autonomous systems.
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Meta lifts the lid on its WhatsCode AI agent
The agent was able to increase privacy coverage 3.5x over 25 months.
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Are smart machines making us dumber?
Without a well-thought AI adoption strategy, you could be leading your team into an automation paradox trap.
Editor’s picks
AI coding mandates are driving developers to the brink
Under pressure to embrace AI, developers are growing frustrated by misguided mandates and are left to clean up any collateral damage inflicted on their codebase.
Essential reading
The right way to make AI part of your tech strategy
With everyone scrambling to bake AI into their technical strategy, leaders may be resorting to unreliable and unscalable methods.
MCP and the future of AI tools
What is the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and how does it simplify data access, enhance AI reliability, and accelerate development?
On our AI playlist
FORTRAN’s AI Playbook: Leadership lessons from history
Learn proven leadership strategies from FORTRAN’s history to successfully adopt AI, upskill teams, and drive lasting transformation at scale
Measuring the impact of AI in engineering
Insights from LeadDev’s inaugural AI Impact Report.
From autocomplete to agents: AI coding assistance state of play
Everybody wants high reliability, but the path isn’t exactly clear. This talk is for people who need to know what works and what doesn’t.
Rethinking growing engineers in the age of AI
Explore how to grow future senior engineers in an AI-driven world that sidelines traditional junior roles.
Are you ready for AI agents?
AI is changing how apps get accessed – are your systems built to keep up?
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9 women in AI you need to know about
AI is everywhere right now, but there have been brilliant women working behind the scenes for years to make today a reality. Here they are.
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How to develop your skillset for the AI era
How can you make sure that your skillset has got the competitive edge in this new age of AI? Constant personal growth is the key.
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Evan Morikawa on how OpenAI scaled ChatGPT
Ahead of his talk at LeadDev West Coast in October, OpenAI’s Evan Morikawa goes behind the scenes on scaling ChatGPT, the constant need to reset as a leader, and how GPUs don’t grow on trees.
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AI and Kubernetes are pushing cloud costs out of control
How can you fight back against rising cloud costs while still adopting modern technologies like AI and Kubernetes?
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Generative AI and the widening software developer knowledge gap
Is the automation paradox coming for the software industry?
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How to write better AI prompts
Writing the right AI prompt for tools like ChatGPT can be the difference between unusable and usable code.
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The AI governance policy engineering managers needed yesterday
You needed an AI governance policy written yesterday. Here’s where to start.